On This 56th Anniversary Of Our Republic Day .........

[Guest guest]

Dearest members of this Holy Satsangha :

 

It gives me great pleasure to recall these words of French Writer

Romain Rolland who said

 

" French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the

face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home

from

the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is

India."

 

Yes! India - Bharatvarsh - The country of our Dreams.

 

Nobel Laurette poet Sri Rabindranath Tagore sings raptuorously

 

Where The Mind is Without Fear

 

WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

 

Rabindranath Tagore

 

Yes - the word 'fear' does not exist in the heart of a True Advaitin.

An Advaitin has nothing to fear .

 

Read this verse from SRIMAD BHAGVAT GITA

 

nehabhikrama-naso 'sti

pratyavayo na vidyate

svalpam apy asya dharmasya

trayate mahato bhayat ( CHAPTER 2- VERSE 40)

 

 

In this there is no loss of effort, nor is there any harm (production

of contrary results) . Even a little of this knowledge, even a little

practice of the YOGA, protects one from the great fear.

 

What is this 'YOGA' SRI KRISHNA IS ADVOCATING ? ADVAITINS, your

comments please ! THIS IS THE GREAT ESSENCE OF THE SRIMAD bHAGWAT

GITA.

 

Fear is our worst enemy. Fear is also our Friend. WHEN YOU

CONQUER 'FEAR' IT BECOMES YOUR FRIEND. WHEN YOU ARE OVERWHELMED

BY 'FEAR ' IT BECOMES YOUR WORST ENEMY.

 

and what is this 'fear' caused by ?

 

Advaitins know the answer - "duality"

 

"There is fear from duality." (Non-duality alone is fearless). (Brih.

Up. 1. 4.2).

 

DO NOT BE AFRAID OF 'DYING'- IN DYING , WE ARE BORN....

 

GET RID OF THAT *EGO* !OF ALL FEARS, THE DEATH OF THE EGO IS THE

GREATEST FEAR.

 

So, the message for the day is

 

" be the non-fearless Brahman"

 

SRI GURUBYO NAMAHA

 

OM SRI mATRE NAMAHA